Michael Marsiglia speaking at a campaign event

From the campaign

Why Michael Is Asking for Your Vote

Election day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Early voting runs October 20 to 27. Every date, deadline and the case for Michael Marsiglia in Division A.

Michael Marsiglia is asking for your vote for Judge of First Parish Court, Division A, on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Early voting runs October 20 to 27, and the deadline to register is October 5, or October 13 through GeauxVote online.

Where these dates come from

Every date below is published by the Louisiana Secretary of State for the November 3, 2026 election. To check your registration or find your polling place, use the Secretary of State’s GeauxVote portal, or call the Jefferson Parish Registrar of Voters on (504) 736-6191.

Key dates

Monday, October 5, 2026: deadline to register in person, by mail, or at an OMV office.

Tuesday, October 13, 2026: deadline to register through the GeauxVote online system.

October 20 to 27, 2026: early voting, 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., closed Sunday October 25.

Friday, October 30, 2026: deadline to request a mail ballot, by 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026: election day, polls open 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

What you would be voting on

Division A of First Parish Court. The court serves the East Bank of Jefferson Parish and hears smaller civil disputes, misdemeanor-level criminal matters, traffic offenses and parish ordinance violations.

It is the court that handles the parish’s most routine legal business, and the one people meet without having planned to.

The case, in short

Michael has spent more than twenty years in Louisiana courtrooms and eleven of them inside this one, as a Traffic Hearing Officer overseeing roughly 25,000 docketed matters.

He has been appointed as a neutral mediator by Louisiana district courts more than three hundred times, including for the 24th Judicial District Court and the streamlined settlement programs after Hurricanes Ida, Laura and Zeta. He has been approved by the Louisiana Supreme Court for appointment as Judge Pro Tempore in First Parish Court.

He has represented individuals, businesses and public institutions, including the Parish of Jefferson, the Jefferson Parish Clerk of Court and the Jefferson Parish School Board.

He has spent eleven years in that building already. He is not asking for the job in order to learn it.

What the commitment actually is

A judicial candidate cannot promise how he would rule, and should not be asked to. A judge who has decided an outcome before hearing the facts is not doing the job.

What can honestly be promised is method. Come prepared, every day. Run the docket so that a person who took unpaid leave to attend is not sent away to come back. Apply the law as it is written, including when the result is not the one anyone wanted. Treat every person the same way, whether or not they have a lawyer.

That is the whole of it. It is narrower than most campaign promises and it is the only kind that can be kept.

Why this race is easy to miss

Judicial contests sit low on a Louisiana ballot, below the federal and state races. Most voters reach them at the point where attention is running out, having read nothing about the candidates and, more often, nothing about what the office does.

That is not apathy. Nobody publishes much about parish courts, because they work quietly and most people never need them. The result is that a seat handling the parish’s most ordinary business is filled by voters given the least information.

It is worth a few minutes. This is the court that handles the traffic citation, the security-deposit dispute, the contractor disagreement and the unpaid invoice.

How to vote

Election day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026, and polls are open from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. You vote at the precinct assigned to your registered address.

Early voting runs from October 20 to 27, 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., at parish-wide locations. All early voting sites are closed on Sunday, October 25. Bring a valid photo identification: a driver’s license, a state ID, a passport or a military ID.

To register, the deadline is Monday, October 5 in person, by mail or at an OMV office, or Tuesday, October 13 through the GeauxVote online system. To request a mail ballot, the deadline is Friday, October 30 at 4:30 p.m.

Confirm any date or location with the Registrar of Voters before relying on it. Dates and locations can change.

The ask

Judicial races sit below the federal and state contests on the ballot, and voters often reach them having read nothing about the candidates. If you have read this far, you have done more homework than most.

The pages on this site were written so that a voter could arrive knowing nothing about parish court and leave able to describe the job. That was deliberate. A person who understands what the office does is in a position to judge whether any candidate is suited to it, including this one.

Michael is asking for your vote on Tuesday, November 3, for Judge of First Parish Court, Division A. Whatever you decide, the dates above are worth keeping, because the races further down a ballot are decided by the people who bothered to turn up for them.

Fair. Experienced. Ready to Serve.

Questions people ask

When is the election?

Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Polls are open from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

When is early voting?

October 20 to 27, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. All locations are closed on Sunday, October 25.

What is the deadline to register?

Monday, October 5, 2026 in person, by mail or at an OMV office. Tuesday, October 13, 2026 through GeauxVote online.

What do I need to bring?

A valid photo ID: a driver’s license, state ID, passport or military ID. Contact the Registrar of Voters if you do not have one.